Regardless of whether there are traffic laws or not, assaulting/murdering a person is a crime regardless of what type of libertarianism you're looking at, or what tool you're using at the time.
It'd be interesting to see cell phones broken up into two sensors/transmitters the size of a stamp and attached to adhesive. One would connect to your jawbone or throat and let you speak while the other would connect to the antenna near your ear.
Or you could have it like bluetooth phones today with the phone itself in your pocket with the aforementioned speaker/receiver attached to your body.
Holidays do seem to be the time to spend spending warm loving moments fixing the computers of mom, dad, my teenage brother, my friends...everyone I know...some people I don't...ah man!
This year my father has been listening to the anti-virus hype and has been complaining about wanting anti-virus on his computer. I could go install something free but that would be a band-aid solution. I'm going to go put Mandrake on his computer and tell him he can leave it on as long as he wants. And like someone said, SSH'ing in to fix it would be a lot easier than getting flak over the phone on why "a popup thing comes up with an error when I try to read my email!"
While I am still rather ambivalent about intellectual property rights, I see this more as Microsoft building up a strong precedent for themselves as well. If they can stop litigation at a imaginably cheaper, lower level, Microsoft could reduce the amount of lawsuits directed at them for IP abuses of the same type.
To me it seems like they are building up support for their own potential use while doing so in a cheaper and less direct way, one where losing a case does not immediately mean they lose billions of dollars.
I think it's rather dangerous to look at a piece of software as something that will "save the internet." Yes, Firefox already has made my browsing experience much, much better, but I think it is more than just because it rocks.
What I believe is important is that there is competition in the market, as well as projects that aren't driven by profits. We saw it before; once Microsoft had Netscape down for the count, Internet Explorer stopped updating. They didn't need to anymore. Now with Firefox and other browsers starting to threaten their share, they probably will have to update Internet Explorer, even if they wait for Longhorn to do it.
If Firefox were to achieve a 97% usage rate across the internet, I would still be somewhat dismayed. Competition and diversity is nearly always good, even when development isn't based upon profits. Even though the Mozilla Foundation is not profit-driven, I would still like to see a handful of options open at any time.
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Regardless of whether there are traffic laws or not, assaulting/murdering a person is a crime regardless of what type of libertarianism you're looking at, or what tool you're using at the time.
It'd be interesting to see cell phones broken up into two sensors/transmitters the size of a stamp and attached to adhesive. One would connect to your jawbone or throat and let you speak while the other would connect to the antenna near your ear.
Or you could have it like bluetooth phones today with the phone itself in your pocket with the aforementioned speaker/receiver attached to your body.
I could do something like this...
It's a sad thing these days but cutting executive salaries often hurts the company in the eyes of the economic elite. I suppose it's for two reasons:
Even though cutting back executive salaries just a tiny bit would suddenly make up for all the workers laid off...
Because if it weren't sensationalist, who would ever read it? For the knowledge? Hah! For shame, thinking we want accuracy...
Unlike coders at EA, the big time players make millions of dollars a year. It might not be worth it to some but I'd almost consider it.
Holidays do seem to be the time to spend spending warm loving moments fixing the computers of mom, dad, my teenage brother, my friends...everyone I know...some people I don't...ah man!
This year my father has been listening to the anti-virus hype and has been complaining about wanting anti-virus on his computer. I could go install something free but that would be a band-aid solution. I'm going to go put Mandrake on his computer and tell him he can leave it on as long as he wants. And like someone said, SSH'ing in to fix it would be a lot easier than getting flak over the phone on why "a popup thing comes up with an error when I try to read my email!"
While I am still rather ambivalent about intellectual property rights, I see this more as Microsoft building up a strong precedent for themselves as well. If they can stop litigation at a imaginably cheaper, lower level, Microsoft could reduce the amount of lawsuits directed at them for IP abuses of the same type.
To me it seems like they are building up support for their own potential use while doing so in a cheaper and less direct way, one where losing a case does not immediately mean they lose billions of dollars.
I think it's rather dangerous to look at a piece of software as something that will "save the internet." Yes, Firefox already has made my browsing experience much, much better, but I think it is more than just because it rocks.
What I believe is important is that there is competition in the market, as well as projects that aren't driven by profits. We saw it before; once Microsoft had Netscape down for the count, Internet Explorer stopped updating. They didn't need to anymore. Now with Firefox and other browsers starting to threaten their share, they probably will have to update Internet Explorer, even if they wait for Longhorn to do it.
If Firefox were to achieve a 97% usage rate across the internet, I would still be somewhat dismayed. Competition and diversity is nearly always good, even when development isn't based upon profits. Even though the Mozilla Foundation is not profit-driven, I would still like to see a handful of options open at any time.
You never know who could go down...someone could steal their name!
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